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DIVYA VANI Volume 4 Number 1 July 1968 A periodical Publication of the “Meher Vihar Trust” An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook June 2018 All words of Meher Baba copyright 2018 Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust Ahmednagar, India Source and short publication history: Divya Vani = Divine voice. Quaterly, v.1, no. 1 (July 1961), v. 3. no. 2 (Oct. 1963): bimonthly, v. 1. no. 1 (Jan. 1964), v. 2 no. 3 (May 1965): monthly. v. 1. no. 1l (July 1965), v. 12, no. 6 (June 1976): bimonthly, v. 1. no. 1 (Aug. 1976), v.14. no. 1 (Jan. 1978): quarterly, v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1979), Kakinada : Avatar Meher Baba Mission. 1961- v. : ill.. ports. Subtitle: An English monthly devoted to Avatar Meher Baba & His work (varies). Issues for July - Oct. 1961 in English or Telugu. Editor: Swami Satya Prakash Udaseen. Place of publication varies. Publisher varies: S. P. Udaseen (1961-1965): S.P. Udaseen on behalf of the Meher Vihar Trust (1965-1969): Meher Vihar Trust (l970-Apr. 1974). Ceased publication?

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DIVYA VANI

Volume 4 Number 1

July 1968

A periodical Publication of

the “Meher Vihar Trust”

An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook

June 2018

All words of Meher Baba copyright 2018

Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust

Ahmednagar, India

Source and short publication history:

Divya Vani = Divine voice.

Quaterly, v.1, no. 1 (July 1961), v. 3. no. 2 (Oct. 1963): bimonthly, v. 1. no. 1 (Jan. 1964), v. 2 no. 3 (May 1965): monthly. v. 1. no. 1l (July 1965), v. 12, no. 6 (June 1976): bimonthly, v. 1. no. 1 (Aug. 1976), v.14. no. 1 (Jan. 1978): quarterly, v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1979), Kakinada : Avatar Meher Baba Mission. 1961- v. : ill.. ports. Subtitle: An English monthly devoted to Avatar Meher Baba & His work (varies). Issues for July - Oct. 1961 in English or Telugu. Editor: Swami Satya Prakash Udaseen. Place of publication varies. Publisher varies: S. P. Udaseen (1961-1965): S.P. Udaseen on behalf of the Meher Vihar Trust (1965-1969): Meher Vihar Trust (l970-Apr. 1974). Ceased publication?

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Monthly: 25th July 1968

D I V Y A V A N I ( DIVINE VOICE )

E d i t o r :

SWAMI SATYA PRAKASH UDASEEN

Phone: 3 6 2 3 3 "The Meher Vihar Trust" Grams: "MEHERVIHAR"

3-6-441, 5th Street, Volume 4 ] Himayatnagar, Hyderabad-29 [ Price:

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M E H E R P U B L I C A T I O N S (Revised and Exhaustive Price-List)

Rs. P.

God Speaks by Meher Baba

(Published in U.S.A.) with Charts ... 37.50

Listen Humanity by Meher Baba

(Published in U.S.A.) ... 37.50

Avatar by Jean Adriel

(Published in U.S.A.) ... 20.00

Civilisation or Chaos? by Irene Conybeare

(2nd revised edition) ... 12.00

In Quest of Truth by Irene Conybeare ... 12.00

Stay With God by Francis Brabazon

(Published in Australia) ... 12.00

The Everything and The Nothing by Meher Baba

(for India – Published in Australia) ... 5.00

The Work of Meher Baba with Advanced Souls,

Sadhus, The Mad and The Poor

by Dr. William Donkin ... 3.50

Wisdom of Meher Baba by Ruth White

(Published in U.S.A.) ... 3.00

Discourses by Meher Baba in 5 vols.

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Let Us The People Sing by Francis Brabazon ... 3.00

Messages by Meher Baba (Eastern & Western) ... 3.00

Meher Baba in The Great Seclusion by Ramju

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Sparks from Meher Baba (Published in England) ... 1.00

The Highest of the High by Meher Baba ... 1.00

Meher Baba's Call and Existence is Substance

and Life is Shadow by Meher Baba ... 1.00

(Continued on 3rd cover page)

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Monthly: 25th JULY 1968

D I V Y A V A N I ( DIVINE VOICE )

AN ENGLISH MONTHLY

Devoted to Avatar Meher Baba & His Work

E d i t o r :

S W A M I S A T Y A P R A K A S H U D A S E E N

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C O N T E N T S

PAGE Baba warns His lovers: ... 3

Life – Separate and in Unity

by Meher Baba ... 5

Special Train of the Master

by Meher Baba ... 9

Baba's Divine Theme

by Pilot Officer M. Anwar. ... 16

Letters to Beloved Baba

from Rick M. Chapman, U.S.A. ... 20

The Eternal Quest

by S. K. Ghosh, Bilaspur ... 29

Baba and His Work

By K. K. Ramakrishnan, Poona. ... 33

Visit to Meher-Azad and Divine Silence (Poems)

by Dr. Hira Lall Chopra, M.A., D.Litt.,

Calcutta ... 39

Books Received: ... 45

The One in Two (Poem)

by Phillips D. Phillips, U.S.A. ... 46

News in Brief: ... 49

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"I am the Ancient One" —Meher Baba

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Baba Warns His Lovers

(THE FOLLOWING LETTER WAS SENT TO A GROUP OF

BABAWORKERS IN INDIA WHEN SOME MlSUNDER-

STANDlNG HAD CAUSED A RIFT AMONG THEM. IT IS

REPRODUCED HERE FOR THE 1NFORMATION OF LOVERS

AND WORKERS OF AVATAR MEHER BABA.) —EDITOR

King's Road,

Ahmednagar (M. S.)

10th July 1968

Dear Brothers and Sisters of Meher-parivar,

I am extremely pained to find that there is a rift in the

Meher-parivar in ........

This fact has been brought to Beloved Baba's notice with

utmost reluctance. And, Baba wants me to let all His dear

lovers know that:—

(1) Whatever be the cause of the rift, He wants each one to

try best to narrow it down and mend it by forgiving and

forgetting one another's trespasses. This is possible if

one resolves to be very sincere, very humble and very

loving. Hypocrisy, arrogance and hatred widen the rift

and breed contempt.

(2) This is a very critical period of the Avataric Age and all

His lovers must strive their utmost to hold His daaman

very firmly so that it does not slip out of their hands

under any circumstances.

(3) It is very important for all His lovers, specially in this

critical period, not to succumb to lust. Temptations are

and will be great, but your love for Him should be

greater. Remember Him wholeheartedly and rise swiftly

from where you have fallen to march ahead in His Love

and Service as His determined soldiers heading towards

victory.

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(4) It is equally important at this critical period of the

Avataric Age to beware at all times of persons who lead

others into believing that they are saintly and pious and

profess to possess supernatural powers. However pious

such persons may appear to be, a Baba-lover must never

mix up such piety with the Divinity of the Avatar!

(5) A true Baba-lover must remember the repeated warnings

given to all Baba-lovers time and again to stay away

from persons who feel and assert that they are masters

and saints and possess powers to help human beings.

His lovers and workers should never get involved with

such persons and affairs, much less with perverted

"helpers of humanity" who have no reverence or regard

for the Perfect Masters and the Avatar of the Age.

Beware of them who exploit spirituality to gain their

selfish ends and dupe others in the name of Sadgurus

and The Avatar!

(6) His lovers and workers should not get intimately

involved with the family affairs of one another, and they

should not be emotionally upset by the personal affairs

concerning any of the families. They should NOT let

any personal affairs vitiate their relationships with one

another or affect their efforts in the work they do for the

Cause of Truth.

(7) He wants His lovers and workers who are spreading His

message of Love to others, to share His Love among

themselves and to uphold the spirit of harmony and

understanding in His Name. He wants them to be less

aggressive towards others and less tolerant towards

themselves; and above all He wants them to love Him

wholeheartedly for He is the Ancient One who loves

them more than they can ever love themselves.

Please note the above seven points carefully, as they are

from Beloved Baba. They are for all His lovers and workers

everywhere.

With loving regards,

Yours brotherly,

Sd./ Adi K. Irani

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LIFE - SEPARATE AND IN UNITY

By Meher Baba

In all races and under all climes, in all countries and at all

times, man is constantly striving for happiness; but there are

few who have it, because there are very few who truly know

the secret. Man is constantly feeling thwarted and limited; and

he is ever in the clutches of agony or suffering, because, not

knowing his own true nature, he identifies himself with the

body or the desires or the limited individual mind, and thereby

becomes a victim to their respective limitations and suffering.

The ego-life of the limited individual sustains the illusory

duality of 'I' and 'You', 'Mine' and 'Thine', and thus breaks

asunder the unity of life, by introducing in it the false

principle of duality. The ego lives in and through the false

idea of separate existence; and this ignorance, which is its

standing ground, becomes the starting point of a life of

multitudinous and ever increasing desires. The life of desires

is always in unending oscillations between the opposites of

joy and suffering, gratification and disappointment, good and

evil. All the desires which spring from the ignorance of

separative consciousness become a perpetual torture and

limitation; they are all episodes in the life of delusion, where

there is the tyranny of promises that are never fulfilled.

Separative existence derives its being and strength by

identifying itself with an opposite and by distinguishing itself

from another. A man may seek to protect his separate

existence by identification with a particular

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ideology or with his conception of the good as distinguished

from what he regards as evil. What he gets in such

identification is not a merging of the limited separative self

but only an appearance of such merging. A real merging of the

limited self in universal life involves complete surrender of

separate existence in all its forms.

Just as a person may seek to hold on to his separate

existence through escape or identification with external forms,

he may seek to hold on to it through identification with some

class, creed, sect or religion, or with the division based upon

sex. Here the individual may seem to have lost his separative

existence through identification with the larger whole, But, in

fact, he is expressing his separate existence through such

identification, which enables him to delight in being separate

from others who belong to other classes, nationality, creed,

sect, religion or sex.

In the world today, humanity is divided into narrow

groups based upon the superficial and ultimately false

difference of caste, creed, race, nationality, religion or culture.

In the large mass that is caught up in these separative and

assertive tendencies, and over-powered by these fetters, there

is unrelieved despair.

Sooner or later, man must look within, ponder deeply, and

search within his own heart for those factors which hold him

down in spiritual thraldom; and sooner or later, he must break

asunder the chains of separative thinking which keep him

from the immense and limitless life of the spirit to which he is

heir.

There is not a creature but is destined for the Supreme

Goal, even as there is not a river but is on its way to the ocean;

but, in the human form alone is consciousness so developed

that it is capable of reflecting and expressing the glory and

perfection of the True and Highest Self, which is at the same

time the Self of all.

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All life is an effort to attain freedom from self-created

entanglement; it is a desperate struggle to undo what has been

done under ignorance, to throw away the accumulated burden

of the past, to find rescue from the debris left by a series of

temporary achievements and failures. Life seeks to unwind the

limiting sanskaras of the past and to obtain release from the

maze of its own making, so that its further creations may

spring directly from the heart of eternity, in freedom and

intrinsic richness of being.

Sanskaras are the deposits left by the evolutionary descent

into the human form and human consciousness; they are like

the dust that gathers on the pilgrim as he treads his Path. In the

human form, which is the highest, the Divine Life is still

enmeshed in these sanskaric deposits in the mind. Its

expression is, therefore, necessarily curtailed and distorted

through the sanskaras which keep consciousness in the

enticing panorama of the false and phenomenal.

One by one, the multicoloured attachments to the false

have to be relinquished; and one by one, the sanskaric faggots

that feed the fires of the separative ego have to be surrendered

to the claim of the Invincible Flame of Truth. Thus and only

thus can man ascend to the pinnacle of divine attainment

which is the endless beginning of Life Eternal. The Life in

Eternity knows no bondage, decay or sorrow, and is the ever-

lasting and ever-renewing self-affirmation of consciousness

and illimitable divinity. The clouds of sanskaras have to

disappear completely before the sky of consciousness is

illumined by the Inextinguishable Light of God who is the real

Self of all.

Affirmation of the separative ego is the chief veil between

man and his divine self; but the doors of the heart have to be

thrown open by the surrender of the ego-

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affirmation if God as the Supreme Beloved is to make His

entry in the heart.

The New Humanity will be free from the life of

limitations and allow unhampered scope for the creative life of

the spirit. It will break the attachment to external forms and

learn to subordinate them to the claims of the spirit. The

limited life of illusion and false values will be replaced by the

unlimited life in the Truth; and the limitations, through which

the separate self lives, will wither away in true understanding.

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* Special Train Of The Master

by Meher Baba

Analogy of the Special Train

If you want to go to a distant place and have no intention

of landing in the middle, you will naturally take the quickest

train for that destination. The masses who, for attaining God

as Truth, follow rites and rituals are, as it were, in the goods

train, which is indefinitely detained at various stations. Those

who sincerely take some name of God with devotion and

dedicate their life to the service of humanity are, as it were, in

an ordinary train, which stops at every station according to the

scheduled time-table. But those who seek the company of the

Truth-realised Master and carry out his orders in full

surrenderance and faith are, as it were, in a special train,

which will take the aspirant to the Goal in the shortest

possible time without any halts at the intermediate stations.

Main Power House and Storage Batteries

God is the eternal fountain of life and power. Different

souls in the world share this life and power in varying degrees

according to their spiritual proximity to God. The nearer one

is to God or Truth, the less separated does he feel, and the

greater is his life and power. Those who become one with God

are the infinite reservoir of all power, life, wisdom and bliss.

But others also share all

* From "Sparks of the Truth from Dissertations of Meher Baba"

Version by Dr. Chakradhar D. Deshmukh, M.A., Ph.D. (London)

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these in a limited degree, according to their station in the

universe. If the God realised Master is compared to the main

power-house, where electricity is generated, other souls may

be compared to sub-power-houses or storage batteries, which

receive and conserve a limited degree of electricity and also

can use it within the limits of their respective capacities.

Coaxing the Mind

The mind cannot be turned to the Truth by sheer force. In

the beginning it has to be coaxed and won over from its usual

rambles, just in the same way as it is necessary to coax

children in order to induce them to give up their play and take

to study. The Master wins over the aspirant to the Truth with

infinite dexterity. When the mind is won over to the Truth, all

the senses automatically follow. If the senses are like soldiers,

the mind is like their commander. When the senses retire from

their distracting activities, it is easy for the ego-mind to

consume itself in the blazing fire of Divine Love.

Enlightened Service

One of the ways by which the Master takes the aspirant to

this goal is initiating him into spiritually enlightened service.

The type of service which liberates consciousness from its

bondage is very rare. Many worldly people, who seem to have

devoted their lives to the service of humanity are actually

serving their own desires. They are really after achieving

greatness or fame. Even when service is rendered with the sole

idea of conferring some benefit upon others, the veil of duality

is still there. In spiritual service, there is no room for obliging

anyone. On the contrary, the person who renders spiritual

service should feel that he is himself being obliged by being

given an opportunity to serve. Even this phase, however, has

in it a shadow of slight illusion, for the thought of sepa-

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rateness from those who are served. is still there, though not in

an aggravated or aggressive form. In perfect service, there is

no thought of any separateness between the one who serves

and the one who is being served. But such service is possible

only for the God-Man.

Maintaining Link with the World

Ordinarily, the universal mind of the Master is linkcd up

both with the world and with God. It is ceaselessly active even

without the interruptions of sleep, which bring psycho-

physical rest to ordinary persons. If the Master wants to have

rest from his work, he has to get away from the world. But as

soon as he does this his universal mind has a tendency to get

merged in the Truth. The link with the world is in danger of

being snapped altogether. This difficulty is usually

surmounted by taking recourse to physical activity like

climbing mountains or running or playing. Such physical

activity gives him the much needed interval of psychic rest or

relaxation without snapping his link with the world.

Choice of the Disciple

It is for the Master to take the disciple to the heights of

attainment, when he is willing to tread the Path, But the

choice of whether or not he is going to tread the Path rests

with the disciple. It is for the Master to give the clarion call of

'Awake! Arise or remain fallen for ever!' and to precipitate the

awareness of the urgent need for spiritual advancement. It is

for the disciple to pay heed to his clarion call and gird up his

loins for treading the arduous spiritual path which is far from

being a bed of roses.

Attractions of Maya

The spiritual line requires a readiness to face the severest

of difficulties. It requires iron will and a heart which does not

melt at the sight of worldly scenes, but

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which remains firm on the Path. One yogi actually saw his

wife jumping from the gallery to the floor and dying for him,

but he remained unmoved by the attractions of Maya and did

not stop even to look at her. He steadied his mind only in his

Master's command that he was to give up everything and

follow him. The Path often calls for such resoluteness. The

disciple must be able to face the blame or the ridicule of the

world as if it were only the chirping of birds. He should be

able to stick to his considered decision in the face of all

opposition.

Drawing the Member of the Circle

Once the disciple makes up his mind to stick to his

Master and follow him, he should not allow any other worldly

considerations to derail him from his determination. The

Master rarely gives a disciple an order to give up everything

and follow him. He does so when the disciple happens to be a

member of his Circle, owing to his long connection with him

through past lives. Even if such a member of his Circle

happens to be at the other end of the globe, the Master has his

eye on him.

The Inescapable Duty

Other friends of such a disciple might want to drag him

back to the material life of self and desires. But the Master

draws him to the freedom of the Truth, sometimes apparently

against his very wishes and quite regardless of whether he

happens at that time to be a great sinner. In such cases, the fact

often is that the Higher Self of the disciple has already made

its decision to attain the Truth, though the temporary surging

up of desires sometimes makes him feel that he is not keen

about it. His having been accepted by his Master at his own

request and on his voluntary surrenderance, imposes upon the

Master an inescapable duty to save him from a further life of

enslavement and ultimately to give him spiritual perfection.

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The Reverse Law for the Masses

But this is the privilege only of those who, through their

past connections, have entered the circle of the Master. With

regard to the masses, who constitute millions, the attitude of

the Master is exactly the reverse. They often judge themselves

to be ready for the highest spiritual attainment. They come to

the Master with sincere prayers to be taken up and be relieved

of their worldly responsibilities and sufferings. They want to

take to the spiritual line of renunciation and advance in it. Yet

in spite of their loud clamouring and pressing requests, the

Master makes them live in the world and stand the hardest of

tests for years and sometimes for several lives. Though they

are thus made to stand and wait, they acquire little by little the

right to enter the circle of the Master if they faithfully carry

out his directions in the midst of their worldly contexts in

which their past karma happens to have placed them.

Inner Working

The masses are given guidance and are then left to work

out their own destiny by stages until they really earn the right

of being accepted into the circle of the Master. But the

members of the circle, on the other hand, are actually dragged

out of their limiting contexts and, even in the face of their

apparent unpreparedness for spiritual life, they are taken

through the Path. Of course the Master never draws any one

by physical or mental force. But he simply adjusts his inner

working in such a manner that the disciple gets drawn to the

Path of Truth.

Disciple must not be like a Weather-Cock

When the disciple is thus drawn on the Path, he has to

stand firmly by the Truth and his Master instead of allowing

himself to waver and change like a weather-cock. He must not

desert his self-chosen line at any cost. The

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forces of Mayavic ignorance are great and irresistible even for

those who are great fighters for the cause of Truth. But the

disciple in the circle has to brave them all. He must not leave

the Path of his choice even against great odds. He must be like

a rock, unaffected by the raining of hardships of physical,

financial, mental or emotional difficulties. He, however, is not

merely expected to be firm on the path. The Master gives him

the necessary strength and is always behind him with all the

infinite powers attendant upon his spiritual perfection.

Sinners and Saints

The Master voluntarily chooses to come to the world for

its upliftment in spite of all its painful shortcomings and

perversities. He may choose to give the benefit of his vision

and powers to the worst of sinners. And when such a sinner

sincerely makes the most of this benefit, he can in due time

surpass even the best of such saints as have no humility to

surrender themselves to a Truth-realised Master in spite of

their plodding on the Path by the momentum of their

temperament. Those who have the advantage of being taken

up by the Master, do not have to follow different spiritual

Paths or Yoga in their separateness. All of them get

beautifully welded into one without any need for special

efforts.

The Fusion of all Paths in one makes Master the Fastest of all

Trains

In sincere surrenderance to the Master, the disciple comes

very near to the stopping of the mind, which is the object of

most yogic processes. In thinking day and night of the Master,

the disciple nearly achieves the ultimate objective of the

diverse practices of meditation and concentration. By putting

the work of the Master above his own personal needs, he

achieves the aim of all renunciation. In obeying the Master at

any cost and serving him selflessly, he nearly arrives at the

culmination of the Path

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of action. In understanding the Master as he is, he comes to

the end of the Path of knowledge. And in loving the Master

above everything else, he becomes one with him as Truth and

thus attains God-hood, which is the ultimate goal of all search

and endeavour. When the time is ripe, realisation of divinity

comes inevitably through the Master. It is never given before

the time is ripe; but it is also never held up even for a split-

second after the time is ripe.

_______

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A Humble Request

May we request you, to contribute to our "Building Fund

and Printing Works Special Donation" Scheme, and associate

yourself with the task of establishment of a permanent abode

of humble and dedicated workers of Meher Baba, the Avatar

of the Age, in the historical city of Hyderabad, sanctified by

Beloved Baba by His many visits and stay during His Mast-

Work and also during the Mano-Nash period. In order to

enable one and all, whether rich or poor, the system of issue of

tickets of various denominations, viz., Rs. l, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100,

500 and 1000 has been adopted. Those who desire to send

their love-contributions may kindly do so by Postal Money

Orders or Bank Cheques on Andhra Bank Ltd., or State Bank

of India, (Hyderabad-A. P., India) to the undersigned and

oblige.

With loving regards,

Yours fraternally,

SWAMI SATYA PRAKASH UDASEEN

Managing Trustee, The Meher Vihar Trust

3-6-441, Himayatnagar, Hyderabad-29.,

A. P., India.

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BABA'S DIVINE THEME

By Plt. Offr. M. Anwar

(Based on a talk given by Gp. Capt. M. M. Sakhare)

There are a few questions which have engaged the minds

of thinking men since times immemorial such as "What is this

Universe? What is Creation? What is its purpose? Is the whole

universe a chaos or is there any meaning behind it? The proper

understanding of these questions has always remained a

difficult problem because of the inadequacy of the human

intellect.

However, it must be agreed that the entire universe is

governed by definite laws and is based on certain fixed pattern.

One can discern the inner discipline all round. One can see

that the creation was and is not chaotic but is based on

orderliness. Take, for example, the solar system where all the

planets revolve round the sun in a most orderly manner. This

discipline is manifest even in the smallest invisible particle,

the atom. In the same way the electrons revolve round the

nucleus of the atom. No one sees the atom with his eyes; yet

the existence of atom and its structure is as much a fact as the

solar system and the existence of God. Thus what Lord

Krishna said thousands of years back and what Baba says that

"I am in everything and everywhere" once accepted in faith on

a philosophical basis has now become comprehensible even

on scientific basis.

The Universe runs on a beautiful panoramic pattern

governed by the law of Illusion according to divine plan.

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Slightest deviation from this pattern would result in ex-

tinction of the entire humanity. Man draws his energy from

the sun. If the sun stops shedding radiant rays or warmth even

for a split second, the entire solar system will collapse. Thus,

there is a definite meaning, purpose and discipline in the

universe. The sustenance of universe is because of its

following a fixed pattern, based on certain higher laws of

gravitation (attraction) which is nothing but the shadow of

Divine Love. There is an inescapable relationship between the

Universe and man; the latter has to follow the same order as

the former.

In the absence of order and discipline in his life man has

degenerated into meaningless automation. The modern craze

generated in this civilization is a sad indication of inner

indiscipline which is the outcome of lack of faith in himself

and in God, the Creator and man's inability to comprehend His

Divine Plan in relationship with the universe.

Man with his puny little intellect cannot understand the

ineffable vastness of the universe which Meher Baba

compares with an imbecile trying to measure the ocean with a

tea cup. Only those who have attained the highest stage of

consciousness by involution have comprehended this theme

and put it down in our scriptures. Baba has explained this

'Divine Theme' in His book 'God Speaks.'

Man is a part of this Divine Theme. If he attains higher

consciousness and reaches the ethereal height by means of

'tapasya' and by shedding gradually his ''Sanskaric" and

"mayavic" binding he starts comprehending his place in the

Divine Theme. The whole creation is one big dream. It has

emanated from the infinite state of God. And the whole

creation is the shadow of one Adi Shakti—one Brahman.

There is discernable relationship between the Brahman, the

man and the particle of dust which is our Universe. Millions

and millions of years ago

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our tiny Universe evolved into becoming what we assume to

be everything. From it emanated the solar system and then

from this the creation on our Earth. Sir James Jeans, the great

astrophysicist, in his book, "The expanding Universe" has

aptly compared the Universe with a stupendous mind which

seems to be in the process of development. But it has two

aspects —One is the manifest and the other unmanifest.

Apparently there is creation, sustenance and destruction which

is the external manifestation of the trinity of the Hindu

conception Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. Ostensibly

everything that is in existence is negated and destroyed but

actually it is not so but gets transmuted and assimilated in

higher forms. Thus Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are one and

the same but have the three aspects of the same Adishakti.

This can be explained with the example of a grain of barley

which the German philosopher Hegel used for different

purpose. A grain of barley put in the soil appears negated or

destroyed. But it is not actually destroyed. It gives place to a

plant which grows up and sustains for some time. The plant

does not remain for long but is destroyed. This destruction of

the plant is apparently so. It gives place to many grains at a

time. Thus the Universe is in a state of flux; there is thesis.

anti-thesis and synthesis. The manifest aspect of the Divine

Law is the creation and destruction but the unmanifest aspect

is that the "part" the essence or the Atman is never destroyed

but gets assimilated in the "Whole"—same infinite state-form

which it was created, i.e., the Adishakti or Brahman or the

Infinite state. From this infinite "Beyond the Beyond" state of

God, i.e. "Nirakar Nirguna State"—Paratpar Parabrahma"

state of God finite matter, atoms of gas were manifested. Then,

through the natural evolutionary processes, this gas became

solidified and took the form of stone, from stone to metals ....

vegetation—worms—fish—bird—animals and, finally a fully

developed intellectual being, i.e. man.

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From this state of man, man goes through life, shedding

off his 'sanskaric' and "mayavic" bindings according to the

Divine law of karma. In this process he gains higher states of

consciousness and then goes on to the highest state. Now the

process is involutionary, from gross to subtle, from subtle to

mental, i.e. "Anna Bhumika", "Pran Bhumika", ''Mana

Bhumika" through seven planes of consciousness. After the

seventh and final plane he becomes one with super-

consciousness and attains "Aham Brahmasmi" state, i.e. "I am

God", or "Anal Haq" State. This is the Divine Theme—from

the Beyond the Beyond, the infinite unconscious state of God,

the finite material state comes into being, which in turn

through evolutionary and involutionary process becomes the

infinite conscious Supreme Being, Who is all power—all

knowledge—all bliss—Brahman i.e. ''Nirguna Nirakar"

becoming '"Saguna Sakar" or "Sat Chit Anand"— God.

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they shall be supplied with a copy each of the Journal

published every year, post free and cost free.

—Editor & Publisher

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Letters To Beloved Baba

From Rick M. Chapman, U.S. A.

1st March '68

Berkeley

Beloved Baba,

The days have passed like a breeze in summer since the

last time I wrote to You three weeks ago. Busy February has

now passed, with its many programs, travels, Your Birthday

celebration by Your lovers here and throughout the world, and

your heart-stirring cables of Love and Love-Blessing and of

awesome times to come. Now March arrives, brimming over

already with plans and itineraries which make the month

ahead look busier and more exciting than ever before. After

decades of impatient waiting for the signal from You that the

time is ripe, the news of Your Presence among men on earth is

now flying around the world faster than any man can see.

It was Valentine's night that Bob Dreyfuss and I spoke

about "The Name of God" on the Berkeley campus and

showed a film of God in human form. The next day I set out

for Denver on the six-day trip, which I outlined in my last

letter. Friday, February 16th, I drove up into the mountains of

Colorado, first to Leadville at 10,000 feet altitude and then to

Glenwood Springs where I spoke at the two campuses of the

Colorado Mountain College giving Your views on drugs. Both

audiences were interes-

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ted and attentive, but the Glenwood Springs group was far

more interested in hearing about the Avatar of the Age than

about drugs and the talk soon centred entirely on You.

The next major stop was Aspen, Colorado, a ski resort of

great renown throughout the nation and the world which has

become attractive to a good number of artists and bohemians.

There a girl named Mary Lynne Hartwell, who had met Allan

on an earlier trip of his through Colorado, had arranged a

place for a talk and had stirred up quite a bit of interest

throughout the town. The talk was held in a rustic beer parlor

which was temporarily closed for remodeling, and the people

who came to hear about "the Highest of the High"—people

interested and people seeking in a variety of ways and paths—

almost all seemed strongly drawn to the Truth which You

Alone Are.

The following day was Monday, the 19th, and I set out

that morning across the mountains to Steamboat Springs,

another small mountain town where two schools, a private

high school and a junior college, were beginning to have

problems with their students using drugs. After lunch at the

Whitemen School, the private school which is tucked four

miles back into the snow-laden hills, I drove into town and the

students followed by bus to the Colorado Alpine College

where the talk was scheduled. A large number of students

came to hear—"LSD: Consciousness Expansion or Corrosion''

was the topic—and in the end the questions were asked more

and more about You and how to find God without the use of

drugs.

After the talk I drove back to Denver, had dinner with my

parents, and later appeared on a radio talk show with two very

different 'men of religion'—a swami from India, Parampanthi,

who heads the International Center of Religion and Culture in

Denver, and a popular Univer-

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salist minister, John Graham. The program was slated to

explore the reasons why today's younger generation is so

attracted to the ideas and teachers of the East, and I had a

chance to tell them about the Source of Truth, the Ocean of

Love, Who is the magnet behind all this activity.

Tuesday night, the 20th, I flew to Rapid City, South

Dakota, talked informally in a coffee house called the Great

Pumpkin, and the next day delivered a convocation speech on

the psychedelic drug issue. The college had invited me to talk

about drugs there as merely a precautionary measure—they

had no drug problem on campus, they said, but they wanted to

forewarn their students concerning the risks involved—yet

when I arrived, an administrator confided that the talk would

be more timely than expected since some problems seemed to

be cropping up regarding marijuana use. Indeed, the students

were much less naive than the faculty knew, and about 700

persons came to hear the talk and had many pertinent

questions afterwards.

I returned to Denver on the afternoon of the 21st and spent

two or three hours with Winnie Barrett, a lover of Yours from

Chapel Hill who now lives in Denver. She had made

arrangements for two talks in mid-March, one at Denver

University and the other a public program to be held at a small

theater. She also introduced me to the editors of a new

'underground' newspaper in Denver who have shown quite a

bit of interest in You and who have printed some articles

about You in their paper. In their desire to poke fun at

everything in the world and with their very shallow

acquaintance with You, one of their articles was in bad taste,

and I talked with these editors for some time to try to give

them some better understanding of Who You are. They

seemed interested and eager to know as much as they could—

it remains to be seen how serious their interest is.

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At 3:30 A.M. the next morning my dear father dutifully,

and yet lovingly, rolled out of bed and took me to the airport

so that I could return to Berkeley in time for Thursday's

classes.

The Birthday celebration itself was extraordinary. Though

the hall on the Berkeley campus was barely half full when the

program began, 5 minutes later it was packed and overflowing

with almost 300 people. The talks came more from the heart

than the head, songs were sung with great love for the True

Beloved, and the long movie of the East-West gathering left

the audience with the strong impression that they had actually

had the darshan of the Ancient One. It was a day of great

happiness and rejoicing, as Your lovers became caught up all

the more inescapably in the Divine Romance.

Allan is away on a week-long trip as March begins. In two

days I will drive down to Monterey, about three hours south of

Berkeley, to talk to a private high school on the drug issue,

and on the next day I will stop at the University of California

at Santa Cruz and talk of You under the auspices of the

psychology club there. The title of that talk will hopefully

fetch all those with an esoteric bent: "Future of Consciousness:

The Psychology of Unlearning."

On the 7th of this month my classes of this winter term

come to an end, and I am planning to fill up the three weeks

between then and the spring term with a whirlwind tour to the

cast coast. Many of the engagements along the way are still

tentative, but here is a rough picture of my expected schedule:

March 7th-13th: Denver, Colorado— Conference with

administrators at

Colorado State Uni-

versity on drug pro-

blem (8th); talks and

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film showings on

Denver University

campus and in down-

town theater (12th

afternoon and night);

talk at Colorado

University (13th).

March 14th: Columbia, Missouri— seminar explicitly

focussed on You and

public talk —"Inside

Indian Mysticism"

at Stevens College

(afternoon and night).

March 15th: Pittsburgh, Kansas— possible talk at a

state teacher's col-

lege where Allan has

spoken previously.

March 16-17th: Myrtle Beach— with Your lovers!'

March 18th: Chapel Hill, North possible talks on the

Carolina— university of North

Carolina campus and

at Duke University.

March 19th-23rd: New York City— plans being made by

Adele McCuen and

other lovers; possi-

bly the Alan Burke

TV show (which

Henry Kashouty was

on) and others; Allan

will be in New York

for 3 days, the 20th

through 22nd, and

we are planning a

public talk together

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as well as TV, radio

programs.

March 23nd (evening): Cedar Grove, a talk to the lnter-cul-

New Jersey— tural Association on

the topic: "Genera-

tion Changes: Etched

in Acid".

March 24th (Sunday): New York City.

March 25th: Possibly Montreal, where Cay Draper

Canada— may be able to

arrange a talk at the

Psychology Club of

McGill University.

March 26th Boston: Massachusetts— Your lover Jim Ke-

Grew is trying to

arrange talks with

the Harvard Divinity

School, with another

group on the Har-

vard campus, and

with Boston College.

March 27th-28th: Upstate New York— if the 27th is not

spent in Boston, then

there are possibilities

for talks at colleges

near Kingston, New

York, in Tom Riley's

vicinity; perhaps a

public meeting in

Woodstock; Maya

Andrau is arranging

talks and radio in-

terviews.

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March 29th-30th: New York City.

March 31st: return to Berkeley to begin classes on April 1st.

I have heard just a few hours ago that in Your unending

Divine Compassion You have again forestalled the ending of

Your Seclusion, now until the 25th of May. Help us all,

dearest Beloved, to make full and best use of this critically

precious time, to cast off all laziness and all worldly

fascination, to strive with honest determination and with real

love to love You more and more........ and to hold with un-

wavering faith and obedience to Your Daaman to the very end!

Love from Your Moochewala

Sd. Rick

_______

18th May 1968

Piedmont

Beloved Baba,

We have received the latest Family Letter here, with Your

messages and instructions. About a week ago I wrote a special

delivery letter to Ella Winterfeldt to request 50 additional

letters for distribution to new lovers, and she received that

letter just before she placed her order with the printing

company. Yesterday we received them all by air mail and

immediately dispatched them all by air to various lovers and

new groups around the country who are not on any list to

receive the letters.

Many of these new lovers who are cropping up in all

places and in every corner of the United States seem clearly to

be Your children in Your Family. I can only say, in order to

convey something of their feeling about Your most recent

messages, that Your dear children seem willing to wait in

patient and cheerful obedience for forty-

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three more Silence anniversaries if asked by You—many

rejoice to have a 'wish' from You which they may carry out,

even when their obedience to Your wishes keeps them from

seeing You! But I hope, Beloved, for Your Sake, that it won't

take forty-three more years of Silence before the world

becomes ready to receive Your Ocean-Tide of Love.

About a week ago, on the 10th of May, I spoke and

showed a film at Berkeley High School, probably the biggest

and best known High School in the area and a very precocious

one from the point of view of drug indulgence and interest in

mysticism. There are several lovers of Yours at the school—

one girl, Lolly Bartlett, is working with me and helping out

immensely on Work here; and a boy named Mike Johnson

was the person who arranged my talk and Allan's earlier talk

at the high school.

Fifty students or so were expected for the talk and film—

the title of the talk read "Meher Baba the God-Man: Awakener

of the Highest Consciousness''. By the time the talk began, the

"Little Theater" where it was held was stuffed to overflowing,

more than five hundred students in the audience. It was a great

surprise, both to Your Moochewala and to the lovers at the

school, and though the talk was quite simple and introductory,

there were many who seemed deeply touched by You.

This coming Tuesday night, Paula Gordon has arranged a

program on the Berkeley campus originally intended to

celebrate May 21st as Your final day in seclusion. The

celebration, of course, will continue, celebrating Your

happiness with Your work done in Seclusion, celebrating

Your Love for man which transforms man into God,

celebrating all those seekers who in their seeking have

stumbled across the Pearl Himself when at the time they were

looking only for the path that leads to the Pearl, celebrating ...

oh, there will be no shortage of good reasons for celebration!

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Next week I am planning to drive down to Los Angeles

Wednesday afternoon, the 22nd. I am scheduled to participate

in a "marijuana workshop" (no experimenting!) put on by the

County of Los Angeles to consider the problem of marijuana

use. There may also be a possibility of appearing on a

television show or two, such as Stan Borhman's Tempo II

which both Allan and I have been on before—Ivy Duce is

lending me some films to use on television if the chance arises.

Saturday, May 25th, a week from today, I will be in Santa

Barbara, about a hundred miles north of Los Angeles, where

one of the large campuses of the University of California is

located and where an explosion of interest in You has

occurred far in advance of anyone speaking or showing films

of You there. These new and yet deep lovers of Yours have

been in touch with Filis from time to time, and some have

driven up to Berkeley on two occasions to talk and get books

and literature. Literally scores of copies of Discourses and

many copies of God Speaks and all other available books

have been ordered by these Santa Barbara lovers, and at the

present it appears to be one of the most active frontiers in

Your Love in the country. Saturday night Your Moochewala

will tell about You and his meeting with You and with Your

most dear lovers in India, and these fiery new lovers will also

have films of You to see.

By Sunday I will return to Berkeley area, to settle in for

heavy studying to wrap up this first year in graduate, school. I

am now living about fifteen minutes outside of Berkeley in

the Piedmont hills, in a house which I share with a warm and

deep lover of Yours named James Taylor. The house is

wonderfully suited to the work that You do here—we have

named it "Meher Daaman."

Love to You, Beloved—Love, Love, Love, consume us in

Your Love.

Sd./ Rick

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The Eternal Quest

by S. K. Ghosh. Bilaspur

From its very inception the humanity as a whole con-

sciously or unconsciously has been seeking for an unknown

object. This object can be best termed as "Anandam" or

"Bliss''. To quote Avatar Meher Baba: "Consciously or

unconsciously every living creature seeks one thing. In the

lower forms of life and in less advanced human beings, the

quest is unconscious. It is conscious in advanced human

beings. The object of the quest is called happiness, peace,

freedom, truth, love, perfection, self-realisation, God-

realisation or Union with God."

While in the process of search, it has to encounter many

hindrances in passing through the various stages of different

lives in the evolutionary process. The bliss or anandam, which

is eternally emanating from supreme Source of indivisible

God and ceaselessly radiating through pure love, is the

Original Source of phenomenon world, and is governing to its

entirety as a pivotal point. Man being limited by his ignorance,

earned through sanskaras, accumulated in past lives, can never

be free from the influence of sanskaric bindings. Though it

appears to be paradoxical, man finds his whole being in the

limited cage of physical form.

The quest takes its course through various stages of the

objective world, motivated by the inherent longing and

dormant impetus and continues eternally.

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According to the evolutionary process the individualised soul

continues its journey through the gate way of births and deaths,

sometimes ascending and sometimes descending in the state of

consciousness. After attaining the human form, the intellect, which

was hitherto dormant during its journey through bird, animal and

other animate and inanimate beings, takes its revelation and begins

to function, simultaneously creating Sanskaras. In the succeeding

life the pre-earned longing (sanskaras), cannot be fully worked out

and release the mental body or karan-sharira—the abode of

Sanskaras, The reincarnation or Punarjanma, therefore becomes

inevitable.

Being unaware of its object man tries to perpetuate bliss

through ephemeral sources in the self-centred physical body. The

physical body can only enjoy gross objects which are never lasting.

The sensory organs or "Indriyas" being the only medium for

enjoying the earthly phenomenon, man feels complacent in his

limited horizon of apprehension.

Avatar Meher Baba says: "Every one wants to know and realise

the Truth, but the Truth cannot be known and realised as Truth

unless ignorance is known and realised as ignorance. The Truth

connotes absolute bliss, absolute power and absolute knowledge."

Man in the whirlpool of worldly Maya gets engrossed due to his

past karma and the aim of life gets dissolved in the abysmal of

oblivion.

His physical appearance, subtle thought and mental make-up

appear to him as his whole being. The purpose of life is thus lost.

This is the stage of every man irrespective of his worldly status.

What a mysterious game it is! As a pilgrim before beginning his

journey, he chalks out a plan to cover thousands of miles and then

reach to his desired destination, but gets stuck up even at the very

first station by seeing the surrounding beauty of the

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enchanting mirage, which appears to him, as real. This induces him

to feel and take it as the only mission of life.

Self-complacent in discharging day-to-day duties becomes not

only an obstacle for individual's onward progress in the present life,

but also the persistence of impressions are carried on in future lives

and predetermines their activities. This is how the individual

remains at poles apart from his real quest. The Perfect Master alone

can save and guide the individual from this stray journey. Having

realised this stray journey, Vishwa Kavi Rabindranath Tagore sung

in ecstasy:

"No more sailing from harbour to harbour with this my

weather-beaten boat. The days are long passed when my sport

was to be tossed on waves.

And now I am eager to die into the deathless.

Into the audience hall by the fathomless abyss where swells up

the music of toneless strings I shall take this harp of my life."

Beloved Baba says, "The series of incarnations which the soul

is impelled to take through Karmic determination, has a tendency to

become endless. Through innumerable lives, the aspirant has come

into contact with countless persons; and he has had all kinds of

dealings of give and take with them. He is entangled in a web of all

sorts of debts to pay and dues to recover; and according to the

karmic law, he can neither avoid the debts nor the dues; since both

have the outcome of Karma inspired by desire. He keeps

incarnating in order to pay off his debts and to recover his dues, but

when he means to clear up the account, he is often unable to do so."

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The real guide in this state is a Perfect Master. And an

aspirant comes in his contact only when he has ennobled

himself to a state of a recipient. But during Avataric period

one need not necessarily prepare himself to the requisite

standard to be a recipient of His (Avatar's) Grace. Because

during Avataric period God not only descends on earth and

personifies Himself, but He also descends to the level of

consciousness of all animate and inanimate creatures of the

world, i.e., He becomes saint for saint, sinner for sinner,

animal for animal, bird for bird, dust for dust and so on. The

sole purpose of God to become man is to give a universal

spiritual push to the world and thereby bringing them nearer to

God.

Humanity of the present age is twice blessed to live in an

Avataric age. God out of His infinite mercy has once again

descended on earth in the form of Avatar Meher Baba and He

is giving His clarion call to humanity to love Him and to

approach Him with unreserved mind and pure heart. The

darkest part of the night is about to be over. The long tunnel of

frustration and despondency will soon disappear and the quest

which was hitherto purposeless will find its destination with

the breaking of Avatar Meher Baba's unique Silence.

Jai Baba!

_______

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Baba and His Work

By K. K. Ramakrishnan, Poona

Two years ago this day, Baba came to us and He sat here,

where we keep His photo. Every Monday, when we sit here I

see (say I visualise) His green car coming; I see Him alighting

from His car; I see Him waking majestically with that radiant

smile that delights the hearts of His lovers, ever shedding light

of love in the dark corners of human hearts. Yes, 1 see Him

walking towards the seat, His feet being greeted with praise at

every step by flowers eager for being trodden under His

sacred feet—flowers that waited patiently on the white path

we laid for Him. Yes, He came amongst us and sat here. This

day is a great day in the history of this Centre.

This atmosphere has been created by His Wish; sustained

and supported by His Love and Grace. On our part we desired

to come together, to take His name together, to sing His glory

together, to try to understand Him and His ways. This

atmosphere is created to help us feel His presence in us and

around us; to help His lovers in Poona to come together and in

their efforts to spread His Message of love and Truth and draw

more and more men towards Him. It is not a great thing for

God to come to His lovers and sit with them and hear their

supplications? Some

From the talk given on the occasion of the 2nd Anniversary

of Avatar Meher Baba's visit to Poona Centre.

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of us may not be feeling the greatness of this occasion,

because of our close contacts with Him, because of our

familiarity with Him, because of the opportunities He in His

infinite mercy and love gives us to be near to Him. But, never

for a moment forget, that in all conditions and circumstances

He remains what He is, Baba is Baba. He is God.

There are Rishis and Munis sitting on the Himalayan

heights doing Japas, Tapas and penances. There are many

others sitting in dark caves and wandering across jungles in

search of Him. Many sit in meditation and contemplation to

have a glimpse of Him.

In fact, every man, nay every living being, longs to meet

Him. Consciously or unconsciously every creature aspires to

reach Him. Life is an attempt to meet and merge in Him. For,

He alone is there to aspire for. He alone is there to meet. And

we all meet Him in and through our limited aspirations and in

and through the form of our seeking Him. Thus when man

feels happy it is a little of bliss of Godhood he experiences for

a moment. But what he wants is the real happiness and that

happiness to be made permanent. Baba, the Ancient One is

Bliss Infinite and Existence Eternal.

How does Baba appear to all? To a man in the gross world,

He appears in the form of man. To those in different planes of

consciousness, He appears in forms suited to those planes, and

states. In the Avataric period, God appears to all created

beings, according to the evolutionary stages they are in, and

according to the development of their consciousness. For

instance, Baba appears to an ant in the form of a big ant

commanding love, respect and reverence as He commands

love and reverence from man in His form as Man. To those

advanced souls in the subtle planes, He appears as brilliant

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lights, delightful sounds and soul-stirring fragrance and to

those in the sixth plane of consciousness, He appears as all-

pervading. To His lovers in the gross plane, He appears as

their Beloved.

Thus our Beloved Baba came to our Centre two years ago.

He sat amongst us, listened to our address, read out to Him by

our elder brother Shri Gadekar, who is now with Baba for ever.

He listened to our songs and was happy to be amongst us. And

what did He say? He said, "I have created the atmosphere you

wanted. Now, it is for you all to keep it up. My blessings to

you all.''

Today we can confidently say we have kept up this

atmosphere till this day. Now, it is for Him to help us keep it

up in the future, for He alone can do it now.

Now, what do we really mean by keeping up this

atmosphere? Does it mean only to come here at 7 p.m. every

Monday, sing, talk, listen and go back home? If that is all

what we mean by atmosphere, then it is a sort of mechanical

performance of an enforced duty. And not keeping up of an

atmosphere Beloved Baba wished us to keep up.

Then what is that atmosphere Baba wants us to keep up?

The atmosphere Baba wants every one of His lovers

everywhere to keep up, is, as I understand, the atmosphere that

is in us and around us—the atmosphere each one of us creates

by our mere presence wherever we are. This atmosphere is

created by Baba and blessed by Him by sitting here amongst

us as our Beloved, creating. in our hearts a feeling of oneness

with others as brothers and sisters and we endeavour to

maintain this atmosphere by sitting here once in a week. But

the real test of our maintaining this atmosphere is seen from

the way we live outside this hall all the seven days of the week.

This atmosphere is meant to be carried to every home and they

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in turn should transform the atmosphere to other homes in

Poona. It should be like the incense we burn. When we use a

good agarbathi (incense stick) the fragrance reaches the

neighbouring houses and they in turn buy the same and the

whole locality realises the one sweet fragrance. Now how can

we spread the fragrance of Baba's Message of Love & Truth?

"Let your life itself be My Message of Love and Truth to

others", says Baba. Means what? Live our life normally and

naturally, which means to be honest in our thoughts, words

and deeds. To be honest means to love one and all, taking

Baba to be residing in them all. Our relation with one another

must be established on this Truth. At least an honest attempt

should be made.

This atmosphere we keep up here attracts our friends and

relations to come. They hear of Baba, who Baba is and what

He says. They in turn tell their friends and relations and thus

the Advent of the Avatar is known and His Message of Love

and Truth spreads far and wide. We, by keeping up this

atmosphere are able to serve our brothers and sisters in

guiding their steps to the presence of the Avatar of the age. In

guiding one to Baba's presence we are helping one to come to

God—goal of everyman, consciously or unconsciously he is

seeking. This is the greatest service you and I can do in this

world.

On an occasion, Vivekananda said, "Millions of lives are

nothing to sacrifice, if that sacrifice can give spiritual light to

one soul." He talked about spiritual light. Baba, the Ancient

One, is the source of all spiritual light and when He is

amongst us, by guiding one soul towards Him we serve that

one, who is guided, and also serve ourselves; for that soul

served is none other than our own self.

Now, this atmosphere Baba had created became a Centre

for His Work. And we, who assemble here unconsciously

become His workers, whether we like it or not. This brings on

us a certain amount of responsibility. We

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must be conscious of our words and deeds. To be a lover of

Baba, to be a worker for Baba's Cause, one has to imbibe into

himself the Message of His Love & Truth. Our honest effort

to love Baba and our honest effort to obey Baba are the only

means left to us to gradually transform our very life and this is

Baba's real work done through us.

Thus we come to the subject of Baba's Work, and it is

befitting for this occasion to refresh our memories with what

Baba said on His Work during the last Sahavas Gathering at

Meherabad:

"Baba" is the Avatar of the age, and the greatest work

anyone can do is to love 'Baba' as "Baba" ought to be loved.

He alone who can love "Baba" does "Baba" Work. What is

"Baba's" Work? It is to tell people who "Baba" is and that

"Baba" says one should love all, slander none, have a pure

heart and not make others suffer for one's own comfort and

pleasure. If Baba's workers themselves lack these qualities,

how can they tell others of what "Baba" says, and work as

"Baba's" workers? On the contrary, such workers have no

share in doing "Baba's" Work. They are obstacles in "Baba's"

Work. There are two types of workers. There is one who tells

people who "Baba" is and what "Baba" says, and himself acts

and lives as He wants His workers, to be in life. There is

another, who also loves Baba in his own way but lacks the

qualities desired by Him. When such a one, instead of doing

His work haphazardly, confesses his incapacity to others, and

tells them what Baba wants them to do, there is no binding

created for the worker and no burden felt by Baba on behalf of

such a worker. The worker should be bold and candid enough

to admit and try to overcome his weaknesses before he

attempts to preach what Baba says. In doing "Baba's" Work

there is one great difficulty. The workers have love for "Baba''

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no doubt, but at the same time they have their characteristic

weaknesses. The great difficulty resides in the expression of

one's ego—the feeling of self-importance by which one is

possessed, despite one's best efforts to lose it. The heart is for

weakening the ego, but the mind is for strengthening it. The

mind gains a sense of greatness in doing "Baba's" Work.

There is no escaping this. What is to be done then? Try to be

humble? But even when the leader of a group charged with the

responsibility of spreading "Baba's'' Message of Love tries to

be humble, his co-workers may take it as mere posing on the

part of their leader and look down upon him, though for his

quality of leadership other people respect the leader.

Another weak spot in doing "Baba's" Work is that the

workers themselves fail to co-operate. With difference of

opinion they find fault with one another. The result is that the

work itself suffers. All this is because the workers differ

among themselves while they dare to carry to the people

"Baba's'' Message of Love, Tolerance and Purity of heart.

But there is remedy for this type of disunity. If the

workers tried to act upon it sincerely, it would be easy to wipe

away the weak spot, real workers are those who, in addition to

giving help to their leaders, disregard the faults of their leaders

and co-workers. In such cases, the workers themselves

become leaders, and yet remain sincere workers, too. If Baba

workers follow this advice and co-operate with their leaders

and co-workers understanding that it is He who has entrusted

the responsibility to the group-heads, then Beloved "Baba's"

Work would be done.

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Visit To Meher-Azad

By Dr. Hira Lall Chopra,

M. A., D.Litt., Calcutta

l. Blessed be Thou the land of India! Greetings to you. It is

you today which contains the very Manifestation of God.

2. Meher Baba is God of the present Age and is your pride,

Human body has been adorned with the dignity of God.

3. Light of God has come to propagate Love,

So that love becomes the remedy of all our maladies.

4. We who got divided on account of caste, creed and colour,

We who got separated from each other in this world,

5. Meher Baba ever tolls the bell and declares "AWAKE"!

O people of the world, how long will you be in slumber

of ignorance?

6. It is time to awaken, "O God-created man, know thy Self,

When you realize your Self, you become God yourself."

English rendering of poems in Persian composed by Dr.

Chopra.

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7. The whole world is ever beholden to Meher Baba,

Because to the caravan of the soul He rings the bell to

go forward.

8. He wants the people of the world to realize themselves,

They should themselves become God, Yazdan and the

Guide.

9. It behoves if on the birthday of such a Prophet,

I recite a verse from Hafiz of Shiraz:

10. "The dust of the path which has been honoured by the

Beloved's feet,

It just behoves me to make that dust, the antimony for

my eyes"

Visit To Meher-Azad

II

1. I bring my wakeful heart to your threshold,

It is already honoured by your vision, I bring it

once again,

This is my only offering which I bring, to tell you the

truth,

At the threshold of a king (Mahmud), I bring a slave

(Ayaz),

"If it is accepted, this shall be a miracle wrought by me,

If it reaches Baba's feet, it gets the highest honour.

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2. The whole world is drowned in dire miseries,

Long ago it has not seen any happy moment,

Peace, harmony and sympathy are vanished,

Your being is a veritable bliss for the worldly people,

Our days and nights are passed in weeping and

lamentation,

Barring Meher Baba, there is no other consolation.

3. We are happy that the Beloved Himself comes to us,

When He comes, our heart gets contentment,

In the burnt garden of our heart, Spring comes when,

Blossoming is to be seen everywhere,

When in trouble we remember Meher Baba,

The gates of blissful heaven are opened unto us.

4. The whole world gets rays of Divine Knowledge from

you Meher Baba!

In your name, the world gets its comfort,

My humble soul gets security in your threshold,

With your kindness, it gets unthinkable treasures,

The path of Love is traversed with ease and comfort,

Even the revolutions of the world do not harm it.

5. Where is friend here for the self-forsaken?

In the presence of Baba, I and you are equal,

If you do not realize your Self, when God is here,

The fault is that you have become self-oblivious,

In Baba's presence if you think of your ego,

Then your Self becomes the cause of all your troubles.

6. When you aspire to roam about in the street of your

beloved,

When you wish to strengthen your own pledge,

Make your ego dust of His path,

Come to Baba and accept LOVE to be your faith,

The gates of the Unseen shall be opened unto your heart,

And the angels of Heaven shall be proud to be your

followers.

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DIVINE SILENCE I

1. I take care of my tongue and do not speak aimlessly,

Because I know that by talking I hardly reach my goal,

If I aspire for the revelation of the hidden secrets of

Eternity,

I should realize Meher Baba, who is my objective,

For He unravels the spiritual secrets by His Silence,

He Himself is the Divine Manifestation and Light of God.

2. Man should ponder and contemplate,

And pollute not his tongue with unnecessary talk,

Make silence the amulet of life and utter less,

Silence has a significance which cannot be described;

Except human beings, the whole creation is silent,

By loose talk, man becomes self-oblivious.

3. For humanity, his faith is discipline and restraint,

Nature adorns the Wisdom of man,

If you wish to comprehend within yourself the Light

of God,

Then, you should control your tongue, shut your

eyes and plug your ears,

When you find this world to be heavy, renounce it,

See Meher Baba, so that you see God incarnated.

4. It is forty-one* years that our Baba is silent,

But in His silence, the Divine revelation is there,

* Poem composed on the occasion of 41st Silence

Anniversary.

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His gestures are full of knowledge, wisdom and

consciousness,

Though He utters not a word, yet our hearts listen to Him.

With His hands, He shows us the path to our goal,

He tolls the bell so that we prepare for our destination.

5. If I could have a moment's gaze at Meher Baba,

I can sacrifice both the worlds for the dust of his

threshold,

For the sake of the Manifestation of Almighty God,

To attain the throne of success, one should sacrifice

his very life,

Jamshid, Naushirwan, Kaisar and Kisra are all slaves here,

And a slave of His slaves is the pride of humanity.

6. If you cannot surrender to Baba, you can never be with

Him,

Man cannot afford to deny His Divinity,

There is nothing true in this world except love and

sacrifice,

Take it from me that Baba will not speak,

I wish that I should praise Meher Baba by my heart,

It will be a long story, hence I close it with silence.

_______

DIVINE SILENCE

II

1. Prophets who are intoxicated with the wine of Love,

They are the deliverers of humanity with paradise on

their shoulders.

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2. They sound the bell of awakening,

They neither cut their hair, nor wear patched-garment.

3. With their breath, they command us to rise up,

They know full well all yesterdays, todays and tomorrows,

4. They suffer mortification for the creation,

And ever strive for the betterment of humanity.

5. Though they are intoxicated with the wine of gnosticism,

They quaff with pleasure the fatal venom of the world too.

6. In God Almighty's shadow, they are pivots of their times,

With Eternity in their sleeves and both worlds in their lap.

7. They give peace, purity and tranquillity to the world

They are silent; but, Creation emanates from them.

8. They give away palaces and royal habitations to

worldly people,

Themselves they live in straw.

9. They drink poison and are not perturbed even with abuses,

They are the fountain-head of sweetness and

disburse sweetness.

10. They listen to the worries of the entire world,

Silent though they are, they are the shield of the world.

11. MEHER BABA is the leader of all of them,

He gives wisdom to humanity and Himself is silent.

12. "Come hither, learn and realize yourself"—

This is the message of Meher Baba for the Self-oblivious.

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BOOKS RECEIVED

"AVATAR MEHER BABA'S LIFE-SKETCH & SOME

MESSAGES & HIS DISCOURSE ON 'LOVE AND GOD'"—

in BENGALI

This elegant publication in Bengali was specially blessed

by Beloved Baba and was released on 10th July, 1968 the

commencement of the 44th year of Meher Baba's SILENCE,

at a public meeting at Calcutta. It has been well received and

reviewed by one and all.

Authorship and Compilation:— A Committee of seven

ardent lovers of Meher Baba in Calcutta.

In addition to Life-Sketch, and Discourse on "LOVE

AND GOD", it contains several important messages and

extracts from certain other discourses of Baba. Also the

"Parvardigar " and "Repentance" Prayers; the latest messages

of Baba, viz., "Rejoice ...... " and "something great to happen".

There is a Foreword by Professor Sri Narayandas Basu, who

is also the President of the Bengal Theosophical Federation.

Size: Demy one-eighth (8.8" x 5.6"). Pages 40, plus one

attractive photograph of Baba on art paper. Excellent printing

on superior paper by top-rank printers of India.

PUBLISHED for "Society in West Bengal for Avatar

Meher Baba" by A. C. S. CHARI, Komala Vilas, 73,

Rashbehari Avenue, Calcutta - 26, to whom please write for

copies (given free).

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The One in Two

(Adaptation of a Discourse by Meher Baba)

By Phillips D. Phillips, U.S. A.

Adventure into heights

Hidden in each - other

Twixt Man and Woman

Rests... all spiritual possibility—

That Vision of Truth

Within Creation is

Manifest to them.....

Joined in the Art-of-Life—

Two discriminate the One

Without side-tracking

Upon the whole panorama

As being their chance

To make of the lower,

The grist and energy

Providing the tension

To sublimate into His Love—

The balance of Destiny

Sings to two in One

Rallying them

To challenge bondage

In the dance

Of ignorance and light...

Precipitate the inner,

Fleeing shadows

Wears out darkness

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As the disguised

Opportunity of Freedom

To establish the Real

The lasting understanding

Of patience the coping—

With Complex Day

And delicate Night—

Lofty Fellowship

Vehicle of sacrifice

The Divine in Humanity

Blesses with Children,

Enriches the elders

In the delight

Of spontaneous surrender—

Welcome the Children

Out of the Divine Mind

Offer each a choice

Of raising 'self'

From passion to peace—

In the 'now' of animal

To the 'pure' of Everlasting

The miracle of bearing

And rearing ...

The Gift to Woman;

While Fatherhood

Is shoulder

Economy, education—

The Truth of Marriage

Is perfect Justice,

The Cooperative endeavor

To attain the full

Mental-control

Emptying 'self'

Through Joy and sorrow

The marriage traverses

So much of the Path,

That only the touch

Of the Master

Can raise them

To the sanctuary

Of Eternal Life......

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Avatar Meher Baba's 74th Birthday

Celebrations

SURAT: Avatar Meher Baba's Birthday Celebrations

were held for the first time at Surat. Baba's Nama-Japa was

done at the residence of Sri Engineer from l1 a.m. on 25th Jan.

till 2 30 p.m. on 25th Feb '68. On this occasion, more than 100

lepers and blind persons were given food. They all joined in

repeating 'Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai.' three times, and

dispersed with great joy. The programme came to an end with

the recitation of Arti.

—Sri R A. Engineer

Avatar Meher Baba Allahabad Centre:

Avatar Meher Baba's 74th birthday was celebrated here

with great enthusiasm under the auspices of Avatar Meher

Baba Centre at its two-day function in the Annie Besant Hall,

Lowther Road.

The first-day function on February 17 was inaugurated by

Smt. Mahadevi Varma, a noted Hindi poetess, and presided

over by Shri Justice H. O. P. Tripathi, of Allahabad High

Court.

Speakers which included Swami Satya Prakash Udaseen

from Hyderabad and Prof. Girija Nandan Dubey of Jabalpur

Vidyapeeth in their respective speeches dealt extensively on

the life and achievements of Meher Baba, who had been

described as the Avatar of the age.

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The second-day function on February 18, was presided

over by Swami Satya Prakash Udaseen and inaugurated by Pt.

Sumitra Nandan Pant, a distinguished Hindi poet. Speakers at

the function paid rich tributes to Avatar Meher Baba.

A large number of distinguished local citizens as well as

from outside Allahabad, namely Sardar Amar Singh Saigal

from Delhi, Shri Samir Kumar Bannerji from Varanasi, Prof.

A. K. Hazra from Jabalpur, Shri Pratap Narain Mishra from

Bombay and Shri Madhusudan and party from Poona

participated in the two-day birthday celebrations.

Shri Saligram Sharma, convenor of the function, in the

end proposed a vote of thanks to the distinguished speakers

and devotees of Meher Baba who had made the function a

success.

A telegraphic message from Meher Baba wishing His

devotees a successful spiritual life to uncover the mystery of

life and death and to free themselves from their bondage was

read out by Shri Sharma on the occasion.

AVATAR MEHER BABA DELHI CENTRE: In

connection with the 74th Birthday Celebrations of Beloved

Baba, several public meetings were arranged by the Centre.

The meeting organised by Sri. P. N. Ganju on 7th April '68 at

the HIL Township was addressed by Dr. C. D. Deshmukh. On

14th April, Sri T. N. Dar organised a public meeting at

Sarojini Nagar Colony, which was inaugurated by Sri S.

Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Health, Govt. of India.

Sri Sondhi, M.P. and Sri Chinta Sarva Rao spoke on the

occasion. Sri Krishna Prashad arranged the meeting at Trikona

Park on 21st April, which was inaugurated by Sri P. Govinda

Menon, Minister of Law. While Smt. Panjab Rao Deshmukh,

M.P. presided over the meeting, Sri Prabhakar Misra, Sri

Kapindraji, Sardar Amar Singh Saigal and Sri W. D. Kain

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spoke on the life and teachings of Avatar Meher Baba. Sri

N.K. Karanjiya, Director, Central Bank of India and Sri Lala

Jagan Nath, a great philanthropist of Delhi also paid tributes to

Beloved Baba on this occasion. This meeting which lasted for

more than three hours was attended by the elite of the city.

On 28th April, there was a very large gathering at Baljit

Nagar Colony, where the devotional music was the chief

feature. Though the Celebrations were to have concluded with

the special function on 5th May, another public meeting was

organised by the Pahargunj lovers of Baba on 12th May, in the

premises of the Chitragupta Temple. Dr. C. D. Deshmukh and

Sri Abdul Majid Khan who came specially for this function

spoke on Avatar Meher Baba and His Message of Love.

—W. D. Kain

Bombay Lovers' Pilgrimage To Tirthpuri Meherdham:

A group of ardent Baba lovers from Bombay led by Sri

Gulabdas Panchal visited Tirthpuri, Chanda and Ballarsha

during April '68. At Tirthpuri village, situated about 25 miles

from Jalna in Aurangabad Dist., Maharashtra State, Sri

Vibhutidas, a very old and staunch devotee of Beloved Baba

since the last 35 years took the initiative and built a permanent

structure for MEHER DHAM in beautiful surroundings. To

celebrate the third anniversary, Akhanda Nama Japa, Baba

Sankirtan and other programmes were arranged from 29th

March to 4th April '68. On this occasion villagers, in

thousands even from long distances in Marathwada had come

to Meher Dham to have darshan of Baba's 'Paduka'. With his

untiring zeal and sincere work, Sri Vibhutidas assisted by a

group of local lovers, organised the function on a grand scale.

Everyday, more than a thousand people used to come to

Meher Dham and free food was provided for one and all.

Many villagers would bring voluntary offerings for God

BABA,

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since they have come to believe the word of Gadge Maharaj,

who declared Baba as the living Vithoba. Among others Sri

Rao Saheb Sarpanch Patil of Tirthpur contributed a substantial

amount for the construction of Meher Dham and also for the

programmes.

Baba lovers from Bombay arrived at Tirthpuri on 2nd

April '68. That night, in the specially built pandal, over 2000

people heard in pin-drop silence Sri Vibhutidas telling them

about the living God Meher Baba and His teachings in Kirtan

form. Sri Vibhutidas, an old little giant even danced in ecstasy.

He had been able to bring thousands of Marathwada villagers,

rich and poor at the feet of Beloved Baba. On 3rd April, there

was Kirtan programme by Sri Duniyadas Maharaj. On 4th

early morning, about 200 people joined 'Prabhat Peri'. As it

was Bazar day in Tirthpuri, a big Mela was arranged near

Meher Dham, and long queues had to be formed for people to

have Baba's Darshan in His Dham. In the night, a grand

procession was taken out, in which about 2000 people

participated. On 5th morning, there was Kirtan and Prayers

and later more than 4000 people received Baba's Prasad.

During their visit, Bombay lovers had seen with their own

eyes the beautiful picture of Baba on the wood, in the nearby

village Karanjal. It is related that in the village Karanjal, there

is a very ardent but poor Baba lover by name Sri Sonar

Sakharam. A few months back, some of his friends ridiculed

him and said that if Baba is God, they must see Him in

everything. Sri Sakharam replied that though Baba is

physically present in Meherazad, He is always present

everywhere and in everything, since even Gadge Maharaj has

told that Baba is the living Vithoba. Then one of them

challenged Sri Sakharam to show Baba in a piece of old wood

which was lying there. Sri Sakharam told them to cut the

wood and find Baba even in that wood. When they cut the

wood into two parts, to their great surprise they could see a

clear and beautiful picture of Beloved Baba. Now all the

people in the village are Baba lovers.

On their return journey, Bombay lovers visited Chanda

Centre. A special gathering was held on 7th night. On 8th &

10th, Sri Pisal, president of the Centre arranged for Baba's

film shows near Chana Fort Maidan and

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Gandhi Maidan respectively which were witnessed by about

3000 people. On th a special programme was arranged at the

residence of Sri Nimbarte, the host at Ballarsha. Sri Manohar,

Quawal, Sri Kasangottuwar, Secretary and many other Baba

lovers from Chanda Centre also participated in the function.

Sri Gulabdas Panchal sang some Bhajans, which were very

much appreciated. Earlier on the same day, there was a Baba

film show before a gathering of about 1500 people at

Ballarsha. The next day, they participated in a gathering of the

Ladies Centre, organised by Smt. Pushpa Rahpade at

Ballarsha. After few bhajans, there was a talk about Baba and

His Avataric work. During this journey, it was a pleasant ex-

perience for these Baba lovers to see that many people who

had never seen physically Beloved Baba were very sincerely

working in His Cause.

— Gulabdas Panchal

BABA STILL AT HARDWAR:

On the occasion of Ardh-Kumbh-Mela held during April

'68 at Hardwar, Baba lovers of Dehra Dun, namely Sri Bal

Kishan, Smt. Prakashwati, Sardar Varindar Singh, and Sri

Kishan Singh opened a Baba Stall, in order to convey Beloved

Baba's Message of Love and Truth to the lakhs of people

visiting the Mela. The Stall was situated at a very central place

and was also nicely decorated with Baba's sayings and

pictures. Literature in English and Hindi, Baba lockets, rings,

etc., were also displayed in the stall. Swami Premananda from

Kabir Ashram, Rishikesh, Sri W. D. Kain and Sri F. C. Tara

from New Delhi also attended to the work at the stall. The

presence of Swami Premananda in pink robes for the first four

days attracted large number of Sadhus to the stall. Though he

is a new Baba lover, he could answer the visitors satisfactorily

about the Avatarhood of Baba. There were many Sadhus and

saints, who visited the stall, bowed down before Beloved

Baba's picture and gave expression of His greatness in various

ways. The presence of Sardar Varindar Singh, who boldly

declared Baba as God, also attracted a good number of Sikh

gentlemen.

Though it is very difficult to give the exact number of

visitors to the stall, at least 2 lakhs had Baba's darshan through

His picture at the stall. Out of them, more than 50,000 must

have actually entered the stall, drawn by His Divine Love.

Sant Kripal Singh was one of the many

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prominent saints who visited the. Baba stall at Hardwar. A

saintly woman visitor after seeing Baba's picture and being

told that He is the Avatar actually cried out: "Here you are! I

have been searching for You so long Oh Krishna! I thought

you will certainly meet me here." As most of the people left

Hardwar on 13th April, it was arranged to close the stall on

16th instant. Even the furniture was returned, but most

unusually a very large number of persons actually poured into

the stall and evinced keen interest to know about Baba. They

were very much impressed by the sweet talk of Smt. Prakash-

wati and remarkable explanations about Baba's Avatarhood by

Sri Varindar Singh.

—Kishan Singh

AVATAR MEHER BABA CHITTOOR CENTRE: Baba

lovers of Chittoor Centre have been very active in His Cause

during the last few months. On the occasion of Sankara

Jayanti Celebrations in Sivananda Ashram, Sri Aswartham

addressed a gathering on Baba's Avatarhood on 2nd May '68.

The meeting largely attended by Sadhus and Sanyasis was

presided over by Swami Vidyananda Girinadha. The talk by

Sri Aswartham with quotations from scriptures was very well

received.

At the invitation of Sri Manegar Lokanadha Reddy and

others, Sri Aswartham visited Nagulamma Putta on 9th June

'68 and addressed a big gathering on Beloved Baba and His

Messages. This place is associated with a number of miracles

in the recent past by a Harijan devotee Sri Gujjayya Das. On

the same day Sri Aswartham and party visited Cherlapalle and

Gazulapalle villages and addressed meetings attended by

hundreds of persons about Avatar Meher Baba.

— V. R. Aswartham

AVATAR MEHER BABA CHALLAPALLI CENTRE:

At Challapalli, Poornima Sammelan on 12th April '68 was

arranged in a specially erected pandal. Sri K. Ramakrishna,

M.A., delivered an interesting talk on 'Rebirth'. About 500

people attended the function. In connection with Beloved

Baba's very strict and deep seclusion, special programmes

were arranged every day from 11th to 21st May '68. Meetings

were held in the neighbouring villages also to spread Beloved

Baba's Name and His Messages.

— Bh. V. Ramana Rao

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INAUGURATION OF AVATAR MEHER BABA

Ismailkhanpet Centre

Sangareddy Taluk, Medak Dist.

Avatar Meher Baba has been often saying that He Himself

would be doing His work and it is only out of His Infinite

Grace that He gives opportunities to Baba workers and lovers

to associate themselves with His Work. This is literally true in

the case of blossoming up of a new Meher Centre—the first

Centre in the Telengana rural area—on 3-6-68. This time

Beloved Baba worked through Brother Raghu Ram, another

new addition to the band of active workers at Meher Vihar,

Hyderabad. Brother Raghu Ram who happened to be drawn

into His fold since about 2 years back, slowly but steadily, be-

came an ardent lover of Baba, after participating in the Meher

Vihar activities at Hyderabad, specially during the early

morning "Nagara Sankeerthana" programme undertaken by

Meher Vihar, Hyderabad from 29th May, 1968 for 43 days to

commemorate the 43rd Silence Anniversary of Beloved Baba.

Having been inspired to spread Beloved Baba's Divine Name

and Message in his native village, called Ismailkhanpet about

35 miles from Hyderabad in Medak District, he and Brothers

B. Pandary, Pandari Guda etc., collected about 20 young and

enthusiastic workers at their village in whom love for Baba

has been infused sufficiently and organised AVATAR

MEHER BABA lSMAILKHANPET CENTRE, and com-

menced early morning "Nagara Sankeerthana" from 4-30 a.m.

to 5-30 a.m. from 3-6-68 onwards. This programme drew

more and more people in the village and at the specific request

of the villagers, a Public Meeting had been arranged on 23-6-

68 (Sunday) at the premises of Geeta Mandir in the village, in

order to acquaint the whole village with Beloved Baba's

biography and Messages. Swami Satya Prakash Udaseen,

Founder President, Meher Vihar, Hyderabad along with others

reached the village at about 5-00 p.m. on 23-6-68 for the

above function. Beloved Baba (Portrait) has been taken in pro-

cession in palanquin with "Sannai'' accompaniment during

which procession the entire village has participated with

wholehearted love and zeal, when practically at every house

Beloved Baba was received with hundreds of people, young

and old, men and women, even though it

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was raining heavily. Later, under the presidentship of Swami

Satya Prakash Udaseen, Sri M. B. G. Shastri spoke at length

on Beloved Baba and His Divine Message of Love and Truth.

Swamiji in his presidential address brought home to the

audience the need of The Avatar at the present critical period

in the history of man and exhorted them all to place complete

faith in Baba, as The Avatar of The Age, and to love Him

more and more. It is really, their supreme love for Baba, that

made most of the audience continue to listen standing, as the

ground had become very slushy due to rain. The whole

audience cheered and cried "AVATAR MEHER BABA KI

JAI" at every inspired occasion during the programme. The

meeting was closed finally with observance of silence for two

minutes and performance of Arati, after which 'prasadam' was

distributed profusely.

Thus, the Centre at lsmailkhanpet though actually

commenced functioning from 3-6-68 was formally in-

augurated by Swami Satya Prakash Udaseen on 23-6-68 and it

is a happy augury of a new phase in the activities of Meher

Vihar.

Baba lovers numbering about twenty had observed

complete silence from midnight of 9-7-68 till midnight of 10-

7-68 (24 hours) as per Life Circular No. 69 and it was a great

occasion for the village; for on 11-7-68 there was again a

grand procession and Bhajan Programme in the morning and

POOR FEEDING PROGRAMME has been conceived and

carried out solely by Brother M. Narsimlu, with the physical

assistance and co-operation of the other Baba lovers. May

Avatar Meher Baba bless brother M. Narasimlu and his family

for their expression of their love for Baba in the above manner.

May Avatar Meher Baba bless all the young band of workers

of Ismailkhanpet Centre, whose love for Baba has brought the

new Centre into existence. May He bless this young Centre to

spread His Divine Message to all nooks and corners of Medak

District.

Avatar Meher Baba ki Jai !

—M. B. G. Shastri

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THE LIFE CIRCULARS OF

AVATAR MEHER BABA (A COMPILATION OF THE 67 LIFE CIRCULARS)

With an INTRODUCTION by Shri ADI K. IRANI

Pages : 148

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The New Life of

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HIS COMPANIONS (A COMPILATION OF ALL THE 34 NEW L!FE CIRCULARS

ISSUED FROM 28th Oct '49 TO 1st Feb '52)

With an INTRODUCTION by Shri ADI K. IRANI

Pages: 324 (with Calico binding)

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N O TI C E

Pin-Lockets and Chain-Pendants with pictures of Beloved

Baba, touched and blessed by Him, are available from Jal S.

Irani, 765, Dastur Meher Road, Camp Poona-1, (Maharashtra

State), India.

1) Superior quality pendant-lockets with chain, for

wearing round neck. Price: Rs. 15-00 and Rs. 25-00.

2) Variety of button-lockets (badges) for pinning on to

coats and dresses. Price: Rs. 1-50 and Rs. 2-00.

3) Beautiful plastic pendant-lockets in two sizes (without

chain). Price: Rs. 3-00 and Rs. 5-00.

4) Attractive rings with Baba's picture, in different sizes.

Price: Rs. 3-00, Rs. 4-00 and Rs. 5-00.

5) Loose Baba-picture stones in colour, for fixing on

rings or lockets. Price: Re. 1-00 and Rs. 1-50.

6) Pretty variety of pendant-lockets for wearing round

neck, with stone inset having Baba's coloured picture.

Price: Rs. 1-50 and Rs. 2-00.

___________________________________________

The Moving Finger Writes (Part II)

Spiritual Revelations By

Meher Baba

Edited by Amy and Adi Arjani

A collection of Discourses by Meher Baba in simple and

lucid style; printed on fine art paper with an attractive portrait

of the God-Man as the frontispiece.

Price: Rs. 1-25

Copies can be had from:

Mr. A. K. Arjani,

C.W.N.A, (7b) Gulshan,

DACCA-12, E. Pakistan

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Meher Baba by His Eastern & Western Disciples ... 1.00

The East West Gathering by Francis Brabazon ... 8.00

God-Man by Charles Purdom (Published in England) ... 37.50

The Unstruck Music of Meher Baba

Compiled by Maud Kennedy (Mimeographed) ... 23.00

In Lap of Love by Naosherwan K. Nalavala ... 3.00

What Am I Doing Here? by Ivy O. Duce

(Published in U.S.A.) ... 5.00

Flower of Contemplation by Adah Francis Shifrin ... 1.00

Life Circulars of Avatar Meher Baba

(Annual subscription from April to March) ... 4.00

The Awakener (Quarterly Journal – Published in

U.S.A.) Annual subscription, including

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Available from:

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Declarations of Divinity ... ... Rs. 0-30

Why Meher Baba is Silent? ... ... Rs. 0-25

Meher Baba on 'Hell and Heaven' ... ... Rs. 0-20

Meher Baba on 'The New World Culture' ... ... Rs. 0-15

A Discourse by Avatar Meher Baba ... ... Rs. 0-10

The Call of Hope ... ... Rs. 0-50

The Word when I Speak ... ... Rs. 0-20

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